State ex rel. Fletcher v. Carroll
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Jurey, J., entered August 16, 1916, in favor of the plaintiffs, in consolidated actions for writs of mandamus to compel the issuance of city warrants upon allowed claims, after a trial on the merits to the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Fullerton, J.-
— On October 27, 1915, and for some years prior thereto, the respondents, Stephen Fletcher and Josiah E. Rhoads, were employed in the lighting department of the city of Seattle as lineman’s helpers, subject to the civil service rules of the city. On the day named, the respondents were engaged, under the direction of a foreman appointed by the city to superintend the work, in stretching a wire from the city’s electric supply line to the dwelling house of a resident of the city. In the prosecution of the work it was necessary to pass the wire underneath and near a supply line of…
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